A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

The internationally known sportsman and traveler Friedrich Gerstacker was typical of its detractors in the mid-thirties.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

Thus, the dotted line shown in figure 4 was taken as typical for the temperature distribution for all blowing rates.

It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.

A previously extinguished conditioned reaction was restored in monkey A and was associated with typical signs of emotional excitement including sympathetic discharges.

The parent was asked to describe the child's typical behavior in certain standard situations in which there was an opportunity to observe tendencies toward perfectionism in demands upon self and others, irrational conformity to rules, orderliness, punctuality, and need for certainty.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.

He played a number of typical situations before observers, other supervisors who kept notes and then explained to him in detail what he did they thought was wrong.

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

The BOD of the raw sewage was typical of domestic sewage from a subdivision.

This was typical of such games, which were earnestly played to win and practically never wound up in an expression of good fellowship.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid -- typical `` don't eat the daisies '' material -- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it.

Mug House, a typical cliff dwelling of the period, was home to around 100 people who shared 94 small rooms and eight kivas built right up against each other and sharing many of their walls ; builders in these areas maximized space in any way they could and no areas were considered off-limits to construction.

As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.

In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.

His ideal was Alexander of Macedon, as Napoleon's was Julius Caesar.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Born into an old, wealthy equestrian branch of the Plebeian Octavii family, Augustus was adopted posthumously by his maternal great-uncle Gaius Julius Caesar in 44 BC following Caesar's assassination.

His mother Atia was the niece of Julius Caesar.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

In 46 BC, she consented for him to join Caesar in Hispania, where he planned to fight the forces of Pompey, Caesar's late enemy, but Octavius fell ill and was unable to travel.

On 15 March 44 BC, Octavius's adoptive father Julius Caesar was assassinated by a conspiracy led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

At the time Caesar was killed on the Ides of March ( the 15th ) 44 BC, Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria.

She became Tiberius's first wife and was the mother of his natural son Drusus Julius Caesar.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

In 44 BC Julius Caesar added two plebeian aediles, called Cereales, whose special duty was the care of the cereal ( corn ) supply.

Caesar was now in a dire position, holding a beachhead at Epirus with only half his army, no ability to supply his troops by sea, and limited local support, as the Greek cities were mostly loyal to Pompey.

This caused Caesar to remark, " The day was theirs had there been anyone among them to take it.

Although Pompey was strongly against it-he wanted to surround and starve Caesar's army instead-he eventually gave in and accepted battle from Caesar on a field near Pharsalus.

This " nothing to lose " mentality was played up by Caesar to his men as he explained that defeat meant nothing less than death.

Caesar also deployed in three lines but could only set them to six men deep if he was to match the length of Pompey's line.

There was significant distance between the two armies, according to Caesar.

Fine Gael, having gambled that former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald would run as its candidate ( even though he had insisted for two years that he would not run for office ) then approached another senior figure, Peter Barry, who had previously been willing to run but had run out of patience and was no longer interested.

It was named after the Monte Carlo Casino, a famous casino where Ulam's uncle often gambled away his money.

Clemenceau believed, in the words of Jean Ybarnégaray, that Caillaux's crime " was not to have believed in victory to have gambled on his nation's defeat ".

Some historians argue that his success was inevitable given the decisive importance of monarchical power ; others argue that the king gambled on Pitt and that both would have failed but for a run of good fortune.

A number of Major League teams scouted Valenzuela during this time, but it was the Los Angeles Dodgers who finally gambled on the young lefty, buying out his Liga contract on July 6, 1979, for $ 120, 000.

I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre ; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands – a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth ; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.

He gambled on Britain not getting involved but was unsure how France would react.

He was a popular figure in the army and at the club, even though he neither liked alcohol nor gambled very much.

Although he socialized with his teammates and sometimes gambled, Sunday was not a heavy drinker.

Unlike other soldiers who gambled away their pay, Feng saved his salary and used a portion of it to help out other soldiers in need, especially those deputy soldiers ( Fu Bing, 副兵 ), and hence he was popular among his fellow comrades-in-arms.

While Emperor Jing was crown prince, Liu Pi's heir apparent Liu Xian ( 劉賢 ) had been on an official visit to the capital Chang ' an, and they gambled together by playing the liubo board game ( heavily tied to divination and predictions of the future ).

Mytton was an enthusiastic dog-fighter and gambled on the outcome of fights between bulldogs, mastiffs and terriers.

Rinus Michels gambled on Rensenbrink's fitness and played him from start – however he only lasted until half-time and was replaced by René van de Kerkhof.

Sadly for his family, this was after he had gambled away the family fortune and vast tracts of the Montacute Estate.

The game was played and gambled over by King Henry VIII of England, who prohibited commoners from playing ; evidently he did not always win, as the record of royal expenses for 1532 show a payment from the Privy Purse of GB £ 9, ' Paied to my lord Wylliam for that he wanne of the kinges grace at shovillaborde ' ( contemporary spelling: ' Paid to Lord William, for he won, by the king's grace, at shovelboard ').

* 2007 NBA betting scandal: In July 2007 it was revealed that National Basketball Association referee Tim Donaghy had gambled on 10 to 15 games, including games which he refereed.

He borrowed more, gambled more, drank more .... was hospitalized for acute alcoholism and depression in ... 1958 ...." In what appeared to be an unsuccessful suicide attempt, according to Keyes, " found him slumped over the table, half a bottle of Scotch and an empty bottle of sleeping pills on the floor.

One night, he ended up in a Gotham City casino, where he gambled everything he owned and ended up losing it all to the Penguin ; afterwards he saw that his life was empty, driven by desire, and there was no point to his existence.

In an uncharacteristically bold move, Herman Starr effectively gambled the future of the company by approving what was reputed to be the first million-dollar contract in music history, which guaranteed the Everly Brothers $ 525, 000 against an escalating royalty rate of up to 7 percent, well above the industry standard of the day.

The movie follows Rose as he gambled on Major League Baseball while managing the Cincinnati Reds, then was caught and banned from baseball for life.

The staff gambled that a weekly angling publication would be a hit-and in 1953 Angling Times was born.

He would warn contestants that if they gambled and lost, all they would receive was their " BFH: Bus Fare Home ".